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Chicago Officers Protest Manpower Shortage, Call for New Top Cop

More than 300 Chicago Police officers marched in protest of Superintendent Jody Weis and demanded an increase in manpower, the Sun-Times reports.

"More manpower, no Weis,'' they chanted, as squad cars and fire trucks drove by honking in unison.

"We've got to show the public that the reality on the street is we are desperately short-handed,'' the report quotes Officer David Garza as saying. "There has been a lot of times when people call for back up and it takes five minutes.''

A former police officer—now an elected official with the Missouri House of Representatives—wants to force any city with a population of 5,000 or fewer inhabitants, with an area of less than two square miles, to disband its police department and contract for law enforcement services with either the county police department or a larger neighboring city.